Classic Doctor Who adventure The Ice Warriors will be released on DVD this summer with animated versions of the serial’s two missing episodes.

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Starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, The Ice Warriors was originally broadcast in 1967 and marked the titular Martian monsters’ first appearance in the BBC sci-fi drama.

Unfortunately, two of the story’s episodes are missing from the BBC’s archives, but their audio tracks exist – so they will be recreated by award-winning animation studio Qurios for the new DVD release.

Dan Hall, producer of BBC Worldwide’s classic Doctor Who range, said: “We’ve been discussing the various ways Qurios could reconstruct these episodes for over three years. So it’s really, really satisfying to finally see them animated. Qurios have a great track record in excellent and innovative animations.”

To whet viewers’ appetites, BBC Worldwide has just released a minute-long “work in progress” clip of one of the animated segments of The Ice Warriors: